The enigmatic island chain in the Pacific Ocean, where fiery flows of lava tumble down the rocky shores into the sea. Home of the world’s largest volcano, green sand beaches and the House of the Rising Sun.
Witness the creation process of Earth itself on the Big Island.
Epic sunrises on the top of Maui.
The enigmatic Big Island of Hawaii, where flows of lava tumble down its rocky shores into the sea. I walked across the fields of fire from Kalapana to the Kilauea coastal lava flows, and stood utterly mesmerized looking upon the creation process of Earth itself. It is one of the most mindblowing things one could ever hope to see. In this article you can read about the Kilauea lava field hike and the dynamic volcanic activity on the Big Island.
Haleakala is the House of the Rising Sun – literally. The sunrise on this volcano on Maui is of such an epic magnitude that it draws people to get up at ridiculous o’ clock at night and drive up its endless hairpin roads to the summit, in order to gawk over the ethereal beauty of its caldera when the sun lights up and paints it in otherworldly colours. You can hike all the way to Halemau’u on the other side of this vast caldera, and explore its countless craters and cinder cones.
The Art of Nature – Hawaiian Pua Lehua. This Pua Lehua flower is laughing in the face of adversity. It’s bursting its way up through a crack in the solidified lava flow of Kilauea Iki crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.